"God calls you to the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet." --Fredrick Buechner

"What we see depends mainly on what we look for."
---John Lubbock

"Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."
---Samuel Butler

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
---Ralph Waldo Emerson

"No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever."
---Francois Mocuriac

"What we see depends mainly on what we look for."
---John Lubbock

"Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars."
---Henry Van Dyke

"Life is not measured by the breath we take but by the moments that take our breath away."
---Unknown

"A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it."
---Alfred Cooke

"Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."
---Samuel Butler

"Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them."
---Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
---Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You all laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same."
---John Davis

"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary." ~Pablo Picasso

"Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in." ~Amy Lowell

"Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable." ~George Bernard Shaw

"I've never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful." ~Unknown

"Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions." ~Edgar Cayce

"Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you." ~Marsha Norman

"Eagles may soar in the clouds, but weasels never get sucked into jet engines." ~unknown

"The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn't simple." ~Doris Janzen Longacre

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." ~Leonardo DaVinci

"Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see." --John Whitehead

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words." -Unknown

"Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude." --Ralph Morstan